SESSION 4

JULIE ADAMS Room: THE STUDY ROOM Strand: ESL Title: PDP Cornell Notes Across All Content Areas Learn from a Nationally Board Certified educator the most effective way to teach note-taking to your students. This comprehensive strategy boosts student comprehension and engagement across ALL content areas. This is one strategy your students CAN’T afford to be without!

LISA BALL / CURT NICHOLS Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Strand: Counseling Title: The International High School Counselor’s Toolbox This workshop will communicate the skills needed to survive in a fast-paced high school counseling office, focusing on the key audiences with whom high school counselors interact, including programs to help address each of those audiences—teachers, universities, students, parents, and administration. We will also provide examples so that participants don’t need to “reinvent the wheel.” We’d be very happy to provide a part 2 to this workshop. In part 1, we are scaffolding the basic elements of the job, while in part 2, we could go much more in-depth into specific topics integral to creating a successful high school program. For example, these topics would include college counseling, financial aid, testing, and managing international transitions.

CATHRYN BERGER KAYE Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Strand: General / Service Learning Title: When Service Meets Learning: The Academic Imperative We must must must connect service to learning. Still, many examples of “service learning” remain teacher-directed assignments lacking student voice with marginal academic benefits. Let’s challenge our thinking and discover new possibilities. Make links to curriculum, units of inquiry, and advanced classes. Strengthen academics while integrating engaging teaching methods.

FAYE BROWNLIE Room: MYANMAR I

Strand: Literacy Title: Everyone a Writer! Yes, It Is Possible—and Fun! Poetry, information research writing, narratives... choose your genre and experience writing strategies that British Columbia primary teachers are using to get everyone writing. We have found that a focus on pre-writing and oral language, teacher modeling, repeated practice with a strategy, clear expectations, and high engagement are all factors for success.

CATHY DAVIDSON Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Teaching for the 21st Century: Peer-Assessment, Peer-Generated Syllabus This workshop introduces new modes of teaching and measuring for the 21st century, including concepts of peer-generated teaching, assessing, and measuring.

SANDY FURTH Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Strand: Counseling Title: Kids in Crisis, Families in Need It is never the intent of an international school to ask a student to leave their school. Unfortunately, there are times when the school and student do not ‘fit’. As everyone knows, the reasons are numerous; ranging from specific learning issues to behavioral issues. While not an easy conversation to hold with parents, there are some viable options to share. Kids in Crisis and Families in Need will discuss options and challenges in locating specific programs for these students.

NICHOLAS JACKIW Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Strand: Math Title: The Geometer’s Sketchpad Workshop: Beyond Geometry This hands-on technology workshop will focus on applications of Sketchpad outside the typical geometry curriculum—especially to algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. While representative topics and activities will be visited, our attention will be split between topics and the tool itself—particularly those aspects of the technology appropriate to mathematical modeling involving equations and their graphs.

JAMES KETT Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Strand: Math Title: What Works and What Doesn’t After 40+ years of experience as a high school mathematics teacher, instructional leader, and author, Dr. Kett will share his impressions of classroom management and instructional strategies: those that work and those that do not.

STEVEN LAYNE Room: BALLROOM III

Strand: Literacy Title: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers (Repeat) Energetic author and educator Steven L. Layne promises a session to delight, empower, and motivate every teacher. Based on his bestselling professional book Igniting a Passion for Reading, this presentation will offer practical and highly motivational strategies to engage reluctant readers in text.

MAGGIE MOON Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Strand: Literacy Title: Book Clubs For Upper Grade Readers (Grades 3-6) Book clubs are no longer a novelty, but a norm in our society. People all over the world meet to talk about their favorite characters, the parts they found intriguing, or other authors they’d like to explore. Talking about books is a crucial skill for students and adults alike! This workshop will explain the key differences between book clubs and literature circles, and will show teachers how to run successful book clubs within a reading workshop structure. Forming successful reading partnerships that lead into book clubs will be another area explored.

DONNA KALMBACH PHILLIPS Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Strand: General / Action Research Title: Teacher Action Research: Framing a Study This interactive workshop is designed to guide participants through the first stages of developing an action research project: problematizing practice, finding a topic, developing a critical question, choosing a study design, and connecting critical literature to an action research study. Participants will work towards designing a draft action research proposal.

DENNIS SALE Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Strand: General Title: Producing Pedagogically Sound Blended Learning Easily With the advent of easy to use rapid development software and Web 2.0 tools, it is now easy to produce effective and efficient online learning resources, providing the design is pedagogically sound. This workshop models the design process, the key decisions that need to be thoughtfully addressed, and illustrates with examples.

PEGGY SHARP Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I & II

Strand: Library Title: New Books for Grades 3-5 and How to Use Them in Your Program Learn of some of the best new books for intermediate students and specific strategies for using them to motivate reading and promote learning. Ideas presented are highly-practical ready-to-use tomorrow strategies for all areas of your program that are appropriate for the new books as well as for your old favorites.

STEPHEN SHORE Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Strand: Special Needs Title: Life on and Slightly to the Right of the Autism Spectrum Join Stephen in his autobiographical journey from the nonverbal days as he relates his life to the many challenges facing people on the autism spectrum. Some of the areas discussed include classroom accommodation, teaching of musical instruments, as well as issues faced by adults such as relationships, selfadvocacy, higher education, and employment. The session ends with a short audience activity demonstrating what it feels like have autism and to struggle through some of the challenges surrounding communication and socialization.

ANNA SUGARMAN Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Strand: Special Needs / Gifted Title: What’s It All About? Managing a Differentiated Classroom for High Ability Learners This presentation asks the participants to review their own management practices and identify trouble spots, discuss requirements for a rich learning environment, and examine traditional and differentiated forms of classroom management. Participants will explore and evaluate differentiated classroom experiences that illustrate various options and structures for management processes that optimize learning.

EARCOS Weekend Workshop Grant Application is now available! visit the EARCOS website for more information www.earcos.org Deadline is April 2, 2012

One of the services EARCOS provides to its member schools throughout the year is the sponsorship of two-day institutes and workshops for faculty and administration. The topics for these institutes are determined according to the needs of members.

EARCOS will provide reimbursement for a consultant’s airfare, honorarium for two days, and per diem for three days for lodging, meals, and incidentals (up to $3,000.00) to schools wishing to host an EARCOS weekend workshop.